cocktail dress

1. 1.

   a dress suitable for formal occasions

   Synonymssheath

   Broaderdress

Questions about cocktail dress

What does cocktail dress mean?

cocktail dress means "a dress suitable for formal occasions".

What is another word for cocktail dress?

Close synonyms include sheath. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cocktail dress a common word?

cocktail dress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.